Judges Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What was the cycle in Judges?
- A. Sin, servitude, supplication, salvation ✓
- B. Peace, war, peace
- C. Law, grace, law
- D. Blessing, cursing, blessing
Answer: Sin, servitude, supplication, salvation
The children of Israel did evil… the LORD delivered them into the hand of… they cried unto the LORD… the LORD raised up a deliverer.
Q2.Who was the only female judge?
- A. Deborah ✓
- B. Huldah
- C. Rahab
- D. Jael
Answer: Deborah
Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Q3.Who killed Sisera with a nail of a tent?
- A. Deborah
- B. Jael ✓
- C. Rahab
- D. Delilah
Answer: Jael
Jael… took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples.
Q4.How many men did Gideon start with?
- A. 300
- B. 10,000
- C. 32,000 ✓
- D. 1,000
Answer: 32,000
The people that are with thee are too many… there were still too many.
Q5.How did God reduce Gideon's army?
- A. Those who lapped water like a dog ✓
- B. Those who kneeled
- C. Those who brought weapons
- D. Those who were afraid
Answer: Those who lapped water like a dog
Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth… three hundred men.
Q6.What did Gideon's men carry?
- A. Swords and shields
- B. Trumpets, empty pitchers, and lamps inside the pitchers ✓
- C. Spears and bows
- D. Stones and slings
Answer: Trumpets, empty pitchers, and lamps inside the pitchers
When I blow with a trumpet… then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
Q7.What vow did Jephthah make?
- A. To offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving
- B. To offer whatever came out first from his house to meet him ✓
- C. To build an altar
- D. To serve the LORD
Answer: To offer whatever came out first from his house to meet him
Whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me… shall surely be the LORD'S, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
Q8.What was the secret of Samson's strength?
- A. His muscles
- B. His long hair / Nazarite vow ✓
- C. His diet
- D. His prayers
Answer: His long hair / Nazarite vow
There hath not come a razor upon mine head; for I have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb.
Q9.Who betrayed Samson for money?
- A. The Philistines
- B. Delilah ✓
- C. His mother
- D. His brothers
Answer: Delilah
Delilah said… Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth… and the lords of the Philistines brought up to her eleven hundred shekels of silver.
Q10.What is the closing refrain of Judges?
- A. There was no king in Israel
- B. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes
- C. Both ✓
- D. Israel sinned
Answer: Both
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.